Super High Roller Bowl Series: Quan Zhou Wins Event No. 2

Quan Zhou has won event no. 2 of the 2024 Super High Roller Bowl Series at the Merit Crystal Cove Hotel and Casino in Cyprus. The Chinese player bested a 39-entry field in the $25,750 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament to earn $316,000 and his third title of 2024.

This victory came just over two weeks after Zhou took down a Red Dragon Poker Tour event in Jeju, South Korea for $110,889. Back in the spring, Zhou also won a $25,000 high roller at the Triton Poker stop in Jeju for $530,000. Zhou now has 3,059 Card Player Player of the Year points thanks to his three titles and ten final tables, good for 40th place in the 2024 POY standings presented by Global Poker.

Zhou was also awarded 190 PokerGO Tour points as the champion of this event, enough to join the top 200 in the PGT season-long points race.

This event featured seven-handed tables, but only the top six finishers earned a share of the $955,500 prize pool. Aram Zobian was knocked out on the bubble, ensuring that the remaining half dozen players had all locked up at least $62,000 for their efforts.

That sum ultimately went to six-time bracelet winner Jeremy Ausmus after he lost a preflop race with A-Q against the pocket tens of Ren Lin. This was the 15th final-table showing of 2024 for Ausmus, who now sits in seventh place in the POY rankings and fifth on the PGT leaderboard after this sixth-place finish.

Felipe Ketzer of Brazil was the next to fall, earning $83,000 as the fifth-place finisher. Bracelet winner Ben Heath’s run concluded when his Q-J was unable to best the A-3 of Zhou in a preflop all-in confrontation. Heath earned $116,500 for his fourth-place showing, growing his career earnings to more than $23 million in the process.

Three-handed play featured plenty of swings. Eventually it was Ren Lin who ran out of chips next after his K-J running into the A-K of Zhou. Lin picked up a straight draw but was unable to improve any further and was eliminated in third place ($158,000). This was his ninth final table of 2024. He is now ranked 21st in the POY standings and 42nd in the PGT race.

Heads-up play began with Zhou in front and the UK’s Spencer Lewis hot on his heels. The battle was short lived, as all of the chips went in on the second hand. Zhou min-raised to 250,000 from the button with A2 and Spencer three-bet to 900,000 from the big blinds with 66. Zhou four-bet shoved for just over 30 big blinds effective and Spencer called. The board ran out A10753 to bring the event to a close.

Spencer earned $220,000 as the runner-up, growing his career haul to more then $4.5 million.

Here is a look at the payouts and rankings points awarded at the final table:

Photos provided by PokerGO.

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